i installed a fresh system with Gnome and GDM on my Lenovo T410s (with an intel GMA). I followed the Xorg and Gnome guides.

When the GDM starts and when i log into my account, i get an excessive lag (5 seconds). This shouldn't be the case, as the laptop has an SSD and i didn't have this problem with Ubuntu. I didn't see any suspicious output in the log files.

Maybe you should enable "debug" USE flag on GDM to see if the logs do show anything.
I don't use SSD, but have also noticed a lag. Sometimes up to 10 seconds. Not really a problem for me._________________Whatever you do, do it properly!

Just as a heads-up: There need to be maid some fixes in a few Gnome 3 packages, which I had to patch through a local overlay to get a working Gnome 3 DE. First common error I found was the deprecated use of "g_thread_init (NULL);" which has to be replaced by "g_type_init();". Second error is the wrong inclusion of the glib library; all includes with "glib.h/*" need to be replaced with "glib.h" solely. Otherwise, some packages like gtkhtml and guake won't compile with the new

Besides that, Gnome 3.2 is working fine for me! Thanks for the great work!

i installed a fresh system with Gnome and GDM on my Lenovo T410s (with an intel GMA). I followed the Xorg and Gnome guides.

When the GDM starts and when i log into my account, i get an excessive lag (5 seconds). This shouldn't be the case, as the laptop has an SSD and i didn't have this problem with Ubuntu. I didn't see any suspicious output in the log files.

Any thoughts on that?

The pulseaudio daemon was causing a big pause whenever I logged in to gnome 3, disabling it zeroconf support in /etc/pulse/default.pa sped things up considerably:

/etc/pulse/default.pa:

### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented
### here if you plan to use paprefs)
#load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-zeroconf-publish

I am trying to design my own gnome-shell theme, and I need the text to be white.
Any shell css coders out there with an idea?
Or should I start a new post for this?_________________Whatever you do, do it properly!

using Gentoo for a very long time it is the first time I am reconsidering. I am almost on my way to Mint

Gnome 3 is not your fault, but enforcing GTK3 over GTK2 definitely is. You are not stupid, you know on the problems. Still you insist riding a horse which walks lame into the wrong direction.

GTK3 looks butt-ugly even with any available theme from gnome-looks.org. The dependencies make me laugh. I had to fiddle around almost 6 hours to figure out sane mask/use settings. It is useless on a netbook and not much useful on the desktop.

GTK2 will stay for quite a time, at least as long as XFCE uses it. I appreciate your work of integrating gnome but please ask yourself on the benefits of pushing for broken gnome3 even if a lot of users switch to XFCE nowadays. How about giving up pure Gnome preference but maintaining KDE/XFCE/Gnome on par?

I just install on fresh system and it start but on failsafe version. First moment i install with gnome-light, and now i make the complete install and now still same problem, no visual effects and no fast moving betwen apps.

a) is a very good move.
b) is a complete insanity. I don't care about the look of my wm because it is fully covered with opened windows most of the time.

But the feel is another story. It is not only about how the wm is doing its work, but also about happiness and productivity. Gnome was never able to provide me a decent mouse focus policy. Something like a combination of "with raise on the window title bars" and "without raise anywhere else". When, like me, you have used this setup for quite some times, you just cannot be happy with any other focus policy. Simplicity is a good thing, but when it is counter-productive, it is not good.

Anyway, all the wm on linux are more or less broken regarding their focus policy, even the less broken fvwm is broken with its NumLock+ClickToFocus issue (I never get a good explanation of the real cause of this problem, who knows?). Too much simplicity like in Gnome is not an acceptable workaround for me. It is the main reasons why I never used Gnome more than a few days.

That was for gnome2. I have 2 more griefs about gnome3 : it will force me to install pulseaudio and policykit, 2 software that will pollute my good working system and break it, especially policykit that cannot be disabled.

Anyway, if you want a Gnome2 *kit free system, you can take a look here at soka's posts._________________[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading that text: please consider ]]]
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Gnome 3 isn't unmasked for me. Is it because I'm using 64 bit CPU? In any case, I'd like MATE to be available. It's like gnome 2, but uses non-graphical improvements from gnome 3. Or maybe CDE, I like CDE too.

Gentoo forces any package, which provides support for gtk-2 and gtk-3, using gtk-3 only. This results in:
a) gtk-browsers without flash
b) completely crappy look'n feel for gtk-2 DE's like XFCE

I do not ask for adding/maintaining/backporting something. These packages provide full gtk-2 support out of the box, while gtk-3 is beta-status (e.g. midori).

In those cases where the support for gtk-3 is beta, the gtk use-flag should use gtk-2, with a gtk3 use-flag defaulted to off, with a USE local.desc stating clearly that gtk-3 support is in beta.
In the "normal" case, assuming gtk-3 support is stable, gtk should be gtk-3, with a gtk2 flag for people who wish to use gtk-2, overriding the gtk flag, with "legacy" somewhere in the description.
In both cases, and where only gtk-2 is supported, the gtk flag description, or the metadata xml, should state which one (2 or 3..) it pulls in.

If a package is to switch to default gtk-3 from gtk-2 it should be a SLOT-bump, imo.

i`m installing gentoo with gnome 3.8 & systemd for nvidia ghraphic card(nouveau driver)
i can start and login to gnome with root user,but i login with my user screen is blank!!
i install gnome step by step with gnome wiki and systemd.
i configure the users & groups,systemd...